audio volume not lowering when navigation is giving directions!

ssabripo · 11-01-2008, 05:40 PM

this was working fine, until today....now when the navigation's voice comes to say something, the audio level (tuner, ipod, etc) does not decrease!

it used to automatically lower, when instructions where being given....is there a setting that I can check for this?

ssabripo · 11-02-2008, 12:19 PM

come on now...anyone?

larryn · 11-02-2008, 02:24 PM

Reboot the system by simultaneously pressing both of the eject buttons and the mute (power) button.

I think it just got into a weird mode. If that doesn't work, you need service.

ssabripo · 11-03-2008, 12:57 PM

well...it seems I've found a small "software bug".

apparently there is a threshold point, in which if the volume level of the navigation is within a 10% of the audio level, and the overall audio level is > 35-40% of the total volume, then there is no attenuation. I tested several scenarios, both in this car and in a 335i, and same issue.

dunno why BMW would do this, because it would make sense to me that no matter how loud your listening level is, it should still be attenuated once the navigation is doing a command (no matter what the navigation's level is).

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ssabripo HALA MADRID! 939 Rep 2,879 Posts Drives: camels & donkeys Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Plantation, Fl iTrader: (7)	come on now...anyone? __________________ F87 M2 Competition, Sunset Orange, Exc, DCT. SOLD F80 M3 Mineral Grey/Sakir Orange, Exc, DCT... ED 6/2015 SOLDE90 M3, Interlagos Blue / M individual two-tone, ZCP, ZP2, ZCV, DCT, ED.
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larryn Lieutenant General 2148 Rep 10,176 Posts Drives: '97 332ti, '21 X5 45e, '16 GT4 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Seattle iTrader: (2)	Reboot the system by simultaneously pressing both of the eject buttons and the mute (power) button. I think it just got into a weird mode. If that doesn't work, you need service.
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ssabripo HALA MADRID! 939 Rep 2,879 Posts Drives: camels & donkeys Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Plantation, Fl iTrader: (7)	well...it seems I've found a small "software bug". apparently there is a threshold point, in which if the volume level of the navigation is within a 10% of the audio level, and the overall audio level is > 35-40% of the total volume, then there is no attenuation. I tested several scenarios, both in this car and in a 335i, and same issue. dunno why BMW would do this, because it would make sense to me that no matter how loud your listening level is, it should still be attenuated once the navigation is doing a command (no matter what the navigation's level is). __________________ F87 M2 Competition, Sunset Orange, Exc, DCT. SOLD F80 M3 Mineral Grey/Sakir Orange, Exc, DCT... ED 6/2015 SOLDE90 M3, Interlagos Blue / M individual two-tone, ZCP, ZP2, ZCV, DCT, ED.
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